5HC : Skinner, Turing (fwd)

maru · 14 Feb 2005, 17:32 · from 2005-February.txt.gz

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From: marudubshinki at gmail.com (maru)
Date: Mon Feb 14 17:32:33 2005
Subject: (urth) 5HC : Skinner, Turing (fwd)
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James Wynn wrote:

>The thing that bothers me about this is that is clumps all desires into the
>same bin. It gathers my (once a week or so) desire to run away from home
>leaving my wife and children to start a new life where no one knows me with
>my "desire" to do what I am convinced I "ought" to do--sometimes by reason,
>sometimes by instruction -- which is contrary to what I generally think of
>as my "desires".  This willy-nilly reductionism does not strike me as
>reasonable. (Of course Hume apparently deals with choices, not desires - so
>this has nothing to do with his theories).
>  
>
We cannot desire to be good, virtous people, with all the concomitant
restrictions that imposes?

~Maru
'That shalt have no desires above Virtue'
to mangle a quote.

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